Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 17
Very young children still mix up wishing, pretending and what really happened, so their tall tales are imagination, not wicked lies.
Who acts: young children, tall tales, People · What happens: mix up, wish, pretend, happen, be, tell · To what, where: imagination · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, and what is not a lie» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young children, tall tales, People), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 young | advmod |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 children | amod |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mix | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 mix | advmod |
| 5 | mix | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 mix | compound:prt |
| 7 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 mix | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pretending | punct |
| 9 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wishing | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 happened | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 happened | advmod |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wishing | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 imagination | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 imagination | advmod |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tales | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tales | amod |
| 18 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 imagination | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 imagination | cop |
| 20 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mix | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lies | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 lies | advmod |
| 23 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lies | amod |
| 24 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 imagination | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mix | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix up | present | young children | still | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wish | gerund | young children not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | pretend | gerund | young children not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | People's tall tales | imagination and wicked lies | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | tell | People | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:195-why-people-lie.lesson:17.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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